URL Encoding? On 4 March 2010 02:13, Roy Leban <r...@royleban.com> wrote:
> Twitter is rejecting tweets as too long when the nbsp character is > used. Here is an example tweet in plain text > > Clue 5 of 15: R _ C _ _ _ N _ N _ _ E _ _ _ T E R _ _ _ > _ N E E R _ N _ _ R _ C U L T U R E http://www.puzzazz.com/s348 > [140 chars] > > And, as I'm sending it with the nbsp characters: > > Clue 5 of 15: R _ C _ > _ _ N _ > N _ _ E _ > _ _ T E R _ > _ _ _ N E E R > _ N > > _ _ R _ C U L T U R E > http://www.puzzazz.com/s348 > > If the nbsp's are each counted as 6 characters, this would be 400 > chars, but Twitter accepts tweets like this. For example, this tweet: > > http://twitter.com/Puzzazz/status/9781320047 > > is 114 chars but I send 304 chars with the nbsp's. > > I have a guess that this only happens when the resulting tweet is > exactly 140 chars. To test this theory, I just modified the site to > shorten that tweet below 140. Sure enough, it works: > > http://twitter.com/Puzzazz/status/9963348931 > -- Charles A. Lopez charlesalo...@gmail.com What's your vision for your organization? What's your biggest challenge? Let's talk. (IBM Partner)
